Wondered if anyone could help and offer a suggestion as I'm really at my wits end and drawing blanks!
My 95 306 xsi 8v dies two weeks after I got it....and no-one can fix it!
Peugeot charged me £110 to say they didn't know, two other garages don't know...my mate works for the RAC and has replaced the lambda sensor and cat and still not happening!
It's running badly and just will not go past 3000rpm...where the engine tone dips then struggles....
It's got a rattle somewhere and after I put oil in it, it turned the water like chocolate milkshake..although it hasn't lost compression or over heats at all????
HELP!!! It's cost me £250 to get nowhere and I'm serioulsy considering blowing it up!!!
Cheers,
Steve
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Hi,
I would recommend getting a Haynes manual and following the troubleshooting tips in there.
Although the car has been to the garage it doesn't mean everything has been checked, more like someone has plugged it in to a computer and had a poke about under the bonnet.
From my experience it could be something simple like foreign body in the fuel system or faulty ECM.
Mark.
PS I would refuse to pay a garage who had accepted the job and not diagnosed anything.
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Cheers Mark..
They fobbed me off with the "we need more time but think it's the lambda sensor....so it's kinda diagnosed"
Thinking of reseting the ecu
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>It's got a rattle somewhere and after I put oil in it, it turned the water like chocolate milkshake
Resettng the ECU aint gonna fix this.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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HG?
his point here >after I put oil in it, it turned the water like chocolate milkshake..
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turned the water like chocolate milkshake, has the head gasket blown?
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Vibrants
The contamination of the water doesn't sound good; but a rattle and an unwillingness to rev suggest the cat may have broken up and blocked the exhaust.
Thump the [cold] cat with your hand; if it rattles, unbolt the joint at the manifold a bit and see if it will then rev. [Cover ears!]
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I think the OP mentioned that the cat had been changed already?
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Yes he did but looking at the maths, he has spent £250, of which £110 went to Peugeot leaving £140 which paid for a lambda sensor and a cat including labour, done by a friend. Looks cheap for the work and materials involved. How good are the components fitted? Oil in the water doesn't sound good and isn't likely to be anything to with a cat or a sensor. I think there are 2 unrelated problems here, at least!
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Cracked head or H/G or both IMO.
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Steve
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I originally thought Head Gasket..but was compression checked and came out fine?
Yeah the Cat has been replaced already....
I was thinking ECU as it's bizzare it's exactly 3000 it fails at?
(I'm not hugely knowledgeable about this and blagging it, but just at the point now where I'm going to try anything as it can't get much worse!)
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As A S said, I think you have more than 1 fault,compression test may not always show up gasket leak so suggest you get the expansion tank sniffed for combustion gases,head split could be like it for years without causing serious problems.
Engine dying out at 3k revs could be an HT fault poss the coil/s breaking down under load
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Steve
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Before we go any further..
How many miles has it done?
madf
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